The Highest Bidder

My girlfriend sent me this link <click here> to an article entitled "Bush Cabinet official target of corruption inquiry." It is about former Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton and her connection to Royal Dutch Shell PLC and the fact that George W. Bush appointed her.

I acknowledge that I am not a political analyst, just an average Joe. Please, feel free to agree or disagree with sources and links. One-liner responses just don't do it for me. I find that I personally rant and rave (not actually shouting) to my girlfriend all the time over this very concept: Oil companies and weapons companies who use government connections to profit. Government workers who help oil companies and weapons companies for financial gain. Didn't Martha Steward go to prison for insider trading? Is there no justice for those who profit from "Insider Warring?"

It goes deeper than that, and I know it has nothing to do with party lines. Here is another company that profits from war. Transguard and they are connected to Halliburton/KBR and many others. Cheney IS connected to Halliburton. Bush IS connected to oil in the Middle East. Don't get me wrong. I am not attacking the Repulican party, or for that matter is my attack on Transguard, Halliburton/KBR. I am attacking the idea of politicians using tax payer money to favor corporations. All corporations will use whatever connection that they have to gain an advantage. But any politician who has a financial interest in a subject that involves making a controlling decision over tax payer's money has a conflict of interest. Any politician (republican, democrat, and libertarian, independent) who encourages our nation to go to war for their financial interest is a warmonger and should be tried for war crimes. So I understand that whoever is in charge is going to get control of the kickbacks for the war profiting.

When the democrats were in charge Bill Clinton bombed Iraq. It just happened that the republicans were in charge for the most recent war fiasco. The important thing to understand is there is money to be made and war is good money. Who cares if the American people have the highest unemployment rate in decades? The war companies who are now global companies don't have to. They have no real connection to our country; accept with the politicians who decide where our tax dollars go. Americans starve while war companies profit: "Transguard Group profits double to $20 million despite global economic climate."

Please don't misunderstand my view points of war, if the United Nations could spare some troops to go down to Sudan to stop the genocide. Then by all means, go to war. Oh, but the oil there belongs to China, more specifically China National Petroleum Corporation and a few other companies. As long as there is money to be made, then the killing just gets ignored. Yes, there IS oil in Sudan.

Like I said before it is not the fault of the corporations in the long run, it is in their nature to gain any advantage. The politicians who take American tax money and give it to a company that will not reinvest back into American soil due to a "conflict of interest" do not represent us as Americans. Vote them out, and then chose another who will represent us. The politicians who have financial interests in places where they have to make decisions on where to take our country to war are committing war crimes. Plain and simple, the fact that we don't have trials right now for those war crimes simply prove how we as American citizens are not free. Our dictators are the highest bidders who pay those who are supposed to represent us.